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Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights | Lex Fridman Podcast #231

Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights | Lex Fridman Podcast #231

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Signal

Signal Foundation (inferred)

“using encryption in your life is very very important”
“the dramatic increase in the usage of signal for example has been really really great to see it's fantastic that tens of millions of people are downloading signal”— Alex Gladstein
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Blue Wallet

BlueWallet (inferred)

“the blue wallet is a good one for people to check out”
“whether it's on an open source software wallet like the blue wallet is a good one for people to check out”— Alex Gladstein
ProductRecommended

Moon Wallet

Moon (inferred)

“if you use like a moon wallet is like I mean it's so cool looking and it's so seamless”
“I mean there are now mobile wallets that are so slick there's one called moon m-u-n wallet from a team in argentina”— Alex Gladstein
ProductRecommended

Brave

Brave Software (inferred)

“it's a great browser um I think it's my favorite browser at this point”
“people should check out brave it's a great browser um I think it's my favorite browser at this point”— Lex Fridman
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Sphinx

Sphinx (inferred)

“this thing has a lot of promising features to it it's worth checking out”
“it's called a tribal model or like tribes um which is this social environment being built on top of lightning um by an app called sphinx”— Alex Gladstein
BookRecommended

The Fear

Peter Godwin

“it is a riveting book I think everyone should read it”
“number one is the fear the fear had a deep impact on me the fear was written by peter godwin it's about the systematic dismantling of zimbabwe”— Alex Gladstein
BookRecommendedISBN verified

The Man Without a Face

Masha Gessen

“incredible book about modern russia and putin just a masterpiece”
“the second book is the man without a face by masha gessen incredible book about modern russia and putin just a masterpiece”— Alex Gladstein
BookRecommendedISBN verified

The Mandibles

Lionel Shriver

“so the mandibles I would highly recommend”
“third one is a fiction book called the mandibles written by lionel shriver this one's good it's a good gift book it's funny it's dark it's witty”— Alex Gladstein
BookRecommendedISBN verified

The Internet of Money

Andreas Antonopoulos

“I just think this is an important one for people to start with”
“my portal into bitcoin was the internet of money by andreas antonopoulos and I did it by audiobook and I just think this is an important one for people to start with”— Alex Gladstein
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Saturday

Ian McEwan

“there's a really good book by ian mcewen called saturday ... it's really good”
“there's a really good book by ian mcewen called saturday a fiction book that takes place during I think 2003 and it's one day in the life of the doctor in london”— Alex Gladstein
BookRecommendedISBN verified

The Blocksize War

Jonathan Bier

“really good kind of like really important to understand”
“you should read the block size war which is a book on that you can get on amazon by jonathan beer really good kind of like really important to understand”— Alex Gladstein

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Little Bitcoin Book

Alex Gladstein

“it's called the little bitcoin book and I'm still proud of it it's 100 pages it's something you give to somebody who knows nothing about the topic”— Alex Gladstein

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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V for Vendetta

James McTeigue (inferred)

“so we would send in movies you know v for vendetta dubbed into spanish and people would sit inside their homes”— Alex Gladstein
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Cold Card

Coinkite (inferred)

“or a hardware wallet like cold card for example there's different ways to do this”— Alex Gladstein
ProductReferenced

Mastodon

Mastodon (inferred)

“I use mastodon for example mastodon is an example of a federated social media now it's ruled by a benevolent dictator”— Alex Gladstein
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Bitcoin Standard

Saifedean Ammous (inferred)

“a lot of people mention sort of the bitcoin standard is the philosophical entry into the whole bitcoin world”— Lex Fridman